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“What motivates sympathy for people in distress in far-away places? Is the rise of humanitarianism recent or ancient? This lecture will explore the ways that global integration since the nineteenth... Read more

“What motivates sympathy for people in distress in far-away places? Is the rise of humanitarianism recent or ancient? This lecture will explore the ways that global integration since the nineteenth... Read more

“What motivates sympathy for people in distress in far-away places? Is the rise of humanitarianism recent or ancient? This lecture will explore the ways that global integration since the nineteenth... Read more

Klaus Gallo is Associate Professor of the History Faculty at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. His current research interests focuses on politics, ideas and culture in Buenos Aires... Read more

Nineteenth-century natural history flourished in Chile thanks to a collaboration between foreign immigrants and Chileans, in a context of Chilean state support for natural history institutions and... Read more

Ambassador Edmond is a seasoned career Diplomat and negotiator with many years of diplomatic service in Latin America and the Caribbean. Career highlights include vice chairmanship of OAS Committee... Read more

Second Annual Malcolm Deas Seminar Hilda Sabato is Head researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET-Argentina) and retired History professor at the... Read more

‘Somos’ (We Are): A participatory documentary on youth and peacebuilding in Colombia What do the youngest in society think about Colombia’s much celebrated ‘transition to peace’? What is their idea... Read more

This paper revisits theoretical models of economic voting to demonstrate that in countries where international shocks are substantially large, the economic vote is a poor instrument of democratic... Read more

Joint Seminar with the Sub-Faculty of Spanish – Please note that this seminar will take place at the Taylorian Institute. Iván Jaksić is Director of the Santiago Program of the Bing Overseas Studies... Read more

Inaugural Lecture to mark the 5th anniversary of the Oxford Latin American History Seminar, jointly organized with the History Faculty, the Rothermere American Institute, the Centre for Global... Read more

International changes can reconfigure domestic politics. Since the late 1980s, developing countries have been subject to intense pressures regarding intellectual property rights. These pressures have... Read more